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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Valerie M. Weaver is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple interconnected fields, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several subfields, including molecular biology, cell biology, oncology, cancer research, and immunology. Their research topics encompass cellular mechanics and interactions, cancer cells and metastasis, 3D printing in biomedical research, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, cell adhesion molecules research, extracellular vesicles in disease, and immune cells in cancer.

Valerie M. Weaver has a notable record of publications in several key venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Nature Cancer
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

The scientist has collaborated regularly with the following coauthors:

  • Jason J. Northey
  • Connor Stashko
  • Mary-Kate Hayward
  • Johnathon N. Lakins
  • Alastair Ironside

Some recent representative papers by Valerie M. Weaver include:

  • A framework for advancing our understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts, 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • Fibrosis and cancer: A strained relationship, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer
  • Tumour-associated macrophages drive stromal cell-dependent collagen crosslinking and stiffening to promote breast cancer aggression, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Stiff matrix induces exosome secretion to promote tumour growth, 2023, Nature Cell Biology
  • Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment, 2024, Nature Cancer

Valerie M. Weaver was recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Tensional homeostasis and the malignant phenotype.

    Matthew J. Paszek;Nastaran Zahir;Kandice R. Johnson;Johnathon N. Lakins

  • Matrix Crosslinking Forces Tumor Progression by Enhancing Integrin Signaling

    Kandice R. Levental;Hongmei Yu;Laura Kass;Johnathon N. Lakins

  • The extracellular matrix at a glance

    Christian Frantz;Kathleen M. Stewart;Valerie M. Weaver

  • A framework for advancing our understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts

    Erik Sahai;Igor Astsaturov;Edna Cukierman;David G. DeNardo

  • The extracellular matrix: A dynamic niche in cancer progression

    Pengfei Lu;Valerie M. Weaver;Zena Werb

  • Effects of substrate stiffness on cell morphology, cytoskeletal structure, and adhesion

    Tony Yeung;Penelope C. Georges;Lisa A. Flanagan;Beatrice Marg

  • Depletion of Carcinoma-Associated Fibroblasts and Fibrosis Induces Immunosuppression and Accelerates Pancreas Cancer with Reduced Survival.

    Berna C. Özdemir;Berna C. Özdemir;Tsvetelina Pentcheva-Hoang;Julienne L. Carstens;Xiaofeng Zheng

  • Extracellular Matrix Degradation and Remodeling in Development and Disease

    Pengfei Lu;Ken Takai;Valerie M. Weaver;Zena Werb

  • A Tense Situation: Forcing Tumour Progression

    Darci T. Butcher;Tamara Alliston;Valerie M. Weaver

  • The extracellular matrix modulates the hallmarks of cancer

    Michael W Pickup;Janna K Mouw;Valerie M Weaver

  • Reversion of the Malignant Phenotype of Human Breast Cells in Three-Dimensional Culture and In Vivo by Integrin Blocking Antibodies

    V.M. Weaver;O.W. Petersen;F. Wang;C.A. Larabell

  • Extracellular matrix assembly: a multiscale deconstruction

    Janna K. Mouw;Guanqing Ou;Valerie M. Weaver

  • Balancing forces: architectural control of mechanotransduction

    Christopher C. DuFort;Matthew J. Paszek;Valerie M. Weaver

  • Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: the force journey of a tumor cell.

    Sanjay Kumar;Valerie M. Weaver

  • Dynamic interplay between the collagen scaffold and tumor evolution

    Mikala Egeblad;Morten G Rasch;Morten G Rasch;Valerie M Weaver

  • Human Breast Cancer Invasion and Aggression Correlates with ECM Stiffening and Immune Cell Infiltration

    I. Acerbi;L. Cassereau;I. Dean;Q. Shi

  • Reciprocal interactions between β1-integrin and epidermal growth factor receptor in three-dimensional basement membrane breast cultures: A different perspective in epithelial biology

    Fei Wang;Valerie M. Weaver;Ole W. Petersen;Carolyn A. Larabell

  • β4 integrin-dependent formation of polarized three-dimensional architecture confers resistance to apoptosis in normal and malignant mammary epithelium

    Valerie M Weaver;Sophie Lelièvre;Johnathon N Lakins;Micah A Chrenek

  • Erratum to Depletion of Carcinoma-Associated Fibroblasts and Fibrosis Induces Immunosuppression and Accelerates Pancreas Cancer with Reduced Survival [Cancer Cell 25, 719-734; (2014)]

    Berna C. Özdemir;Tsvetelina Pentcheva-Hoang;Julienne Leigh Carstens;Xiaofeng Zheng

  • Reversion of the Malignant Phenotype of Human Breast Cells inThree-Dimensional Culture and In Vivo by Integrin BlockingAntibodies

    V. M. Weaver;O. W. Petersen;F. Wang;C. A. Larabell

Frequent Co-Authors

Mina J. Bissell
Mina J. Bissell Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Harold L. Moses
Harold L. Moses Vanderbilt University
Kirk C. Hansen
Kirk C. Hansen University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Stanford University
Ole W. Petersen
Ole W. Petersen University of Copenhagen
Joanna J. Phillips
Joanna J. Phillips University of California, San Francisco
Raghu Kalluri
Raghu Kalluri The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Eric A. Collisson
Eric A. Collisson University of California, San Francisco
Lisa M. Coussens
Lisa M. Coussens Oregon Health & Science University

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